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Ben Gilbert: belief

23 Jan 2022 Acquired Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)

“I think for the first hour of it, I was just spending being in a state of shock that I was just hanging out in a room informally with the Beatles.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
23 Jan 2022
Publisher
Acquired

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…Oh, nice. I got to watch that. By Peter Jackson, Get Back. It is like hanging out with ghosts is the best way I can describe it. The original footage, and it's clearly restored because it's a very high quality footage of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. You're spending eight hours, many hours cut across three parts. You're just hanging out with them while they are creating an album from nothing in a matter of a month. It is, especially for those of us who grew up seeing pictures of The Beatles, listening to the Beatles music, and only ever seeing like a little video here or there and usually poor quality. I think for the first hour of it, I was just spending being in a state of shock that I was just hanging out in a room informally with the Beatles. For mine, I've got a fun one that we've talked about much over on the LP show. Go check it out on the LP, the now newly public LP Feed for everyone, and we are both wearing right now, Italic. We did a little partnership with them for some Acquired gear for a recent guest, us, and our significant others. It's just such high quality stuff. I love it. It's great.…

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